By African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights, International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs
November 26, 2010
The African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights has established the Working Group on Indigenous Populations/Communities, which undertook a country visit to the Republic of Rwanda in December 2008. This is the report from that visit. The report gives an account of meetings held with government ...
By Sylvia Fisher Carrasco
August 31, 2010
This report argues and demonstrates that the Peruvian government acted in bad faith by modifying the original proposal to create the Ichigkat Muja National Park agreed upon with the Awajun and Wampis indigenous communities of the District of El Cenepa, Department of Amazonas, Peru. The ...
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By Pat Robbins
August 31, 2010
Red-Spotted Ox is the autobiography of an indigenous Pokot man, Domonguria, as told to Pat Robbins in the early 1970s. Domonguria spent his life near the Kenya-Uganda border in East Africa in a world already then under rapid change. By allowing Pat Robbins to record and write up his stories, he ...
By Albert Kwokwo Barume
August 15, 2010
The indigenous peoples of Africa are increasingly being dispossessed of their ancestral lands. It started during colonial times, when many of them lost their land to European settlers. It continues today where conservation interests, commercial plantations, mineral exploitations, and other economic...
By Jens Dahl
December 30, 2009
This book reviews one of the first organizations to be established in support of indigenous peoples. IWGIA was founded in 1968 by anthropologists concerned at the atrocities being committed against Indians in South America. Within a few years, a small group of dedicated scholars working on a ...
By African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights, International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs
December 30, 2009
The African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights has established a Working Group on Indigenous Populations/Communities that undertook a research and information visit to the Central African Republic in January 2007. From that visit this report was created, which gives an account of meetings held...
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By Katrin Wassendorf
December 30, 2009
This yearbook contains a comprehensive update on the current situation of indigenous peoples and their human rights, and provides an overview of the most important developments in international and regional processes during 2008. Over 60 indigenous and non-indigenous scholars and activists provide ...
By African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights, International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs
May 01, 2009
Report of the African Commission's Working Group on Indigenous Populations/Communities – Mission to the Republic of Botswana, 15-23 June 2005...
By African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights, International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs
May 01, 2009
Report of the African Commission's Working Group on Indigenous Populations / Communities – Mission to the Republic of Namibia, July-August 2005...
By African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights, International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs
May 01, 2009
In 2001 the African Commission on Human and Peoples Rights established a Working Group on Indigenous Populations/ Communities (WGIP); in February of 2006 the working group undertook a mission to the Republic of Niger. This is the report from the mission. The report gives an account of meetings held...
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By Kathrin Wessendorf
May 01, 2009
This Yearbook covers the period January-December 2007 and provides an update on the state of affairs of indigenous peoples worldwide through country reports covering most of the indigenous world and updated information on the international and regional processes relating to indigenous peoples. ...
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By Danilo Geiger
September 01, 2008
Poverty and the maldistribution of land in core areas of developing countries, together with state schemes for the colonization of unruly frontiers, have forced indigenous peoples and settlers into an uneasy co-existence. Presenting material from various Asian and Latin American countries, Frontier...